Meloni a provoqué elle-même son propre échec, confirmant qu'elle est une dirigeante politique surestimée : si elle brille, c'est parce que ses alliés et ses adversaires sont ternes
La présidente du Conseil Giorgia Meloni (Ansa) – Ansa
Une défaite nette de la droite au gouvernement, qui est avant tout un immense danger évité, mais qui n'est pas encore un signal de victoire pour qui est dans l'opposition.
Meloni a causé sa propre perte, confirmant qu'elle est une dirigeante politique (…)

Par ses égarements antisémites et complotistes, Jean-Luc Mélenchon dessert le combat antifasciste, son unité et sa moralité. Sa sortie lyonnaise à propos de l'affaire du pédocriminel Epstein est la faute de trop.
« Nous sommes dans un royaume des désemparés », confiait récemment Christiane Taubira sur Mediapart à propos du désarroi, des divisions et des égarements des gauches face à l'offensive conquérante des fascismes renaissants, à l'échelle du monde comme à celle de la France. C'est (…)

In the wake of the Nakba, Jabra Nicola and his cohort of Arab communists created a vibrant anti-Zionist literary landscape.
Press card issued to Jabra Nicola, circa 1944.
In 2014, after an Israeli airstrike killed his brother Ayman and four of his close friends, the Gazan journalist Ahmed Alnaouq received a message from his friend Pam Bailey. “Tell me how you feel,” the American journalist and activist wrote. When Alnaouq responded that he was profoundly depressed, Bailey encouraged him (…)

What are the issues that socialists and feminists should examine in the light of the information in the Epstein files asks Liz Lawrence?
One obvious theme is the sense of entitlement of the very rich and powerful, their assumption that illegal activities committed in the privacy of mansions and palaces are immune from prosecution, that rich and powerful men have a right to sexual relations with younger and often poorer women, and the mechanisms by which the crimes of the powerful are (…)

Dave Kellaway unpicks yesterday's local election results in France.
Nearly every political current claimed some success after yesterday's second round of the French local elections. The Socialist Party (PS) won the big towns and consolidated its base in local government. The mainstream right (LR – the Republicans) did the same in its areas of influence, and its potential Presidential candidate, Phillipe, won Le Havre. The far-right National Rally (RN) of Marine Le Pen has now established (…)